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Since its creation in 1993 the Institute has built up a reference library for research as well as to meet the growing demand for information on Asia. Today, the library is France’s biggest Asia documentation centre outside Paris. The collection covers every field in the social sciences (anthropology, demography, law, economics, ethnology, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, sociology and urban studies among others) with special emphasis on East Asia. More than two-thirds of the works in the library are in Asian languages.

1. General description

The IAO library is devoted to research. Its primary purpose is to acquire and manage documents and other resources needed for studying East Asia countries (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Viêt-Nam as well countries in South-East Asia) and to be a centre of reference in the field.

The library has more than 45.000 monographs, over 750 periodicals, 252 of them still in circulation, and over 350 maps. It also has more than 1000 microforms, 530 American dissertations in the PDF format (UMI), and 227 Chinese films on VCD.

2.History

In 1998, the library acquired the Asian holdings of the now defunct Institute of Comparative Research on Institutions and Law which used to be a part of the CNRS. Over time, it has expanded its resources with thousands of works on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The library’s expansion has been sustained especially by credits from the CNRS, under a national program for decentralising research.

Another major source of funding is the Rhône-Alpes Region under an agreement between the French State and the Regions. Since 2002, thanks to the Region’s policy of furthering cooperation with the Indochina peninsula, the IAO has developed a policy of acquiring documents and other resources on South-East Asia in general and Viet-Nam in particular. The IAO has thus amassed a specialised collection of about 7,000 volumes, more than half of which are in Vietnamese.

The TIAO has also acquired a number of well-known private libraries on Asia (among them the Porée-Maspéro, Georges Boudarel, Paul Mus collections) as well as the private collections of research scholars (listed below) and major institutions (the Taiwan National Library andthe Korea Foundation).

3. Donations

The IAO research library is actively committed to finding and preserving special collections, particularly collections on Vietnam and Japan. Recent years have seen tremendous growth in documentation on the Indochina pensinsula, thanks mainly to a number of high-quality donations.

Donor

Acquired in

Contents

Short description

Overview

Daniel Hémery

2011

Files on Indochina

Politics, history, society

Documentary materials on the history, politics and social and economic life of colonial Indochina

Stéphane Corcuff

since 2008 (ongoing collection)

500 books on Taiwan

Politics, , history, society

Documents in Chinese and Western languages

Jean le Gallo (personal collection)

2009

Books and periodicals on China

History, politics, Cultural Revolution

A portion of the documents published during the Cultural Revolution which are difficult to find

Eric Seizelet, Jurist and professor at Paris-Diderot University ; Paris 7 ; former Director of the IAO

2009

350 books

Japanese politics and law

Historical resources in Japanese

Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Director of the Department of Comparative Politics at the Hong Kong Baptist University

A treasure-house of information on Khmer politics spanning a 30-year period.

4. The Lyons Taiwan Collection (CDTL)

This collection was created on 23rd May 2008 at a ceremony presided over by the Taiwan representative, Mr Michel Lu Ching-long. The collection is formed by works belonging to the IAO along with resources received in recent years (Collection of the Information Service of the Taipei Representation Office, the Jean-Pierre Cabestan collection and the collection of the Chinese Cultural Centre in Paris). For more information click here.